Ridiculous fight scenes and narrow escapes? Check. Booby traps and creepy crawlers? Check. A plot that centers around some mythical object and the baddies who want to use it for nefarious purposes? Check. Indiana Jones is back in all his glory, and the new film pays tribute to everything that was good about the famous trilogy.
Speakers debate the morality of abortion
Hundreds of students and community members attended a civil debate on an incendiary topic Wednesday night.
Baseball looks to end season on positive note
In nearly every game this season, things have looked good for the Cal Poly baseball team at one point or another. Then the Mustangs gave up leads – 23 times, to be exact, over the course of their 30 losses, which have rendered their season-ending series at UC Riverside without playoff implications.
Poly duo eliminated at national championships
Not being able to capitalize on break-point opportunities cost Brittany Blalock and Steffi Wong on Thursday, as the Cal Poly women’s tennis doubles tandem was eliminated from the national championships.
Blalock and Wong, Cal Poly’s first doubles team to compete in the tournament, fell in the first round to Texas’ Marija Milic and Vanja Corovic, 6-4, 6-4 at the Michael D.
Mustangs end season on a grand slam
Junior third baseman Brent Morel broke a 7-7 tie in the 10th inning by blasting a grand slam down the left-field line to carry the Cal Poly baseball team to a 12-7 win in its season finale at UC Riverside on Sunday afternoon.
Mendes tries cagefighting
Chad Mendes has always been a fighter. Now, instead of fighting on a mat, he’ll do it in a cage.
For Mendes, who said Tuesday he’d signed a contract to pursue mixed martial arts, the transition from a one-loss Cal Poly wrestler to World Extreme Cagefighter may not be too extreme, after all.
Lee gets an Express teammate
Cal Poly sophomore right-hander D.J. Mauldin has signed to play with the Eau Claire Express, the team announced Wednesday. Mauldin was one of five signings — four of them pitchers. The 6-foot, 185-pounder is currently 4-5 with a 4.22 ERA,…
Gospel Gossip proves brilliant and diverse
Listening to Gospel Gossip is like finding a 20 in the wash. Actually, scratch that – it’s like finding a kilo of Columbian non-dairy creamer in the wash. These kids just showed up out of nowhere and dropped a brilliant debut album in my lap. (Specifically, this “nowhere” is called Northfield, Minn.
Conservative first, Republican second
Yesterday, the Democratic Party continued its self-destruction with the prolonged
Surfboard shaping program recognized
Cal Poly’s surfboard shaping program was recognized on Tuesday by The Surfer’s Journal, “the ‘National Geographic’ of surfing mags”
Mendes, Day are honored athletes
One by one, team by team, several Cal Poly athletes stood and were applauded.
Then, all of them rose in unison to acknowledge two of their peers – Chad Mendes and Sharon Day – two whose achievements would stand out in any crowd.
Both were named Cal Poly’s 2007-08 Athletes of the Year at the annual Night of the Mustang banquet and awards ceremony Tuesday night at Embassy Suites.